Necktie-holder.



PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

F. L. WOOLBY.

NECKTIE HOLDER. APPLICATION IILED FEB.15, 1904.

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Q/vitmeooeo avian/1mg Patented August 2, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

FRIEDRICH L. WVOOLEY. OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TOJAMES H. GODMAN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

NECKTlE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 766,408, dated August2, 1904. Application filed February 15, 1904. Serial No. 193,716. (Nomodel.)

To a whom it Duty (lone/Wit.-

Be it known that I, FREDRICK L. \VooLnY, a citizen of the United States,residingat Cincinnati, (Hyde Park) in the county of Hamilton and Stateof Ohio. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Iecktie-Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in necktie-holders.

The object of the invention is to provide a necktie-holder which may bequickly attached to and removed from a tie and which may be easilyapplied to a collar-button to securely hold the tie in place.

'ith this and other objects in view the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts,as will be more fully described, and particularly pointed out in theappended claim.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 is a rear view of a bow-tie,showing the application of the holder to the same. Fig. 2 is a frontview of a portion of a collar and shirt, showing the manner of attachingthe holder to the collar-button. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view ofthe holder. Fig. & is a top plan view of the holder. Fig. 5 is an endelevation of the same.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 denotes the holder, whichis constructed from a single piece of spring-wire bent to form abutton-engaging eye or loop 2 and laterally projecting tie engagingloops 3, which are disposed in a horizontal plane or at right angles tothe plane of the eye or loop 2. The ends Iof the wire after forming theloops 3 slightly overlap each other and are pointed, as shown.

The button-engaging loop is here shown as being substantially triangularin shape; but it is obvious that the same may be formed in various othershapes.

To use the holder, the same is attached to the back of a tie by engagingthe pointed ends at with the fabric forming the same, as shown inFig. 1. The ends of the loops 3 are now pressed together, which willopen the eye or loop 2 and permit the same to be engaged over the headof a collar-button, and when the pressure on the loops 3 is released theloop 2 will retract and engage the shank of the button, as shown in Fig.2, and thereby hold said loop in place and support the tie.

"hile the device is here shown as applied to a bow-tie, it is obviousthat the same may be employed in connection with any formof 0 tie andwhen desired maybe quickly removed from one tie and applied to another,so that one holder may serve for a number of ties.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanyingdrawings, 5 the construction and operation of the inventionwill be readily understood without requiring a more extendedexplanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details ofconstruction may be 7 resorted to without departing from the principleor sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A necktie-holder comprising a single piece of wire bent intermediate ofits length and crossed to form a button-engaging loop or eye and havingits ends extending in opposite di- 30 rections beyond the eye and thencebent to form loops disposed at right angles to the eye, and providedwith overlapping terminal points, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 5 my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

FREDRICK L. \VOOLEY.

\Vitnesses:

JAMEs CAMPBELL, J o'i-iN C. BARTON.

